(432 quotes found)
“A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state”
William Blake
“Never make predictions, especially about the future.”
Casey Stengel
“You can only predict things after they've happened”
Eugene Ionesco
“The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.”
Bill Vaughn
“Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!”
Paul A. Samuelson
“I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.”
Charles de Gaulle
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence”
Camille Paglia
“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”
Hannah Arendt
“It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena”
William Whewell
“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci”
Antoine Lavoisier